We propose an innovative use of the information provided by the Leiden Rankings (LR). Although LR only consider … and promising scholars can push the performance of a university up to the top of the LR. Supporting ''emerging teams'', as …

We investigate how university governance affects research output, measured by patenting and international university … research rankings. For both European and U.S. universities, we generate several measures of autonomy, governance, and … competition for research funding. We show that university autonomy and competition are positively correlated with university …

impact. Conceptually unique in its scope, Global University Rankings and the Politics of Knowledge addresses the lack of …"For many institutions, to ignore your university’s ranking is to become invisible, a risky proposition in a … competitive search for funding and talent. But rankings tell us little if anything about the education, scholarship or engagement …

Purpose: We address the question of whether differences are statistically significant in the rankings of universities … Chinese universities included in the Leiden Rankings 2020, we argue that three main groups of Chinese research universities … in Leiden Rankings 2020, the results similarly indicate three main groups: high, middle, low. Using this data (Leiden …

I investigate the relationship between university rankings and economic growth and found that the relationship is … statistically significant. The more the number of universities that a country has in international university rankings, the higher … its GDP per capita. What is more surprising is that, as I expand the lists of rankings from top 100 to top 500, the …